By means of this reversal, Coleridge effected a reconciliation of the "tragedy of fate" and the "tragedy of character" in his description of the force of fate as merely the embodiment of an interior compulsion different in scale but not in kind from the interior compulsions of character.
Heavy gamblers and drug users are much more diverse groups, in short, than many presume, and their compulsions have different meanings in the context of their lives that are important guides for treatment.
Of course, anger, jealousy, resentment, stress, cravings, addictions and compulsions feel like different energies.
However, patients diagnosed with OCD widely vary according to symptom type (compulsions vs. obsessions), different kinds of obsessions and compulsions (e.g., hoarding vs. cleaning), severity, age of onset, comorbidities (e.g. tics, depression) and medication as an influencing factor [ 7].
At different moments he understands his compulsion in different ways: a pre-emptive defence against rejection, a means of asserting his moral superiority over others, even a form of self-anesthetisation: He was, he thought, very close to the ideal state he dreamed of in his reading, the state of renunciation and quiet.
His nightmarish fairy tale captures the essential, inescapable evil at the center of the Holocaust, the human urge to destroy Others — whether the Anderer or people of different ethnicities and religions — a compulsion existing beyond time, place or politics.
But Socrates himself suggests a different way of characterizing the compulsion.
If there is coercion then it is a different matter (and I concede that there can be "soft" cultural compulsion from within one's community, which is problematic).
It consists of 140 symptoms of different psychopathological domains (e.g. consciousness, fears and compulsions, affectivity, delusions, or somatic problems) and 9 syndrome scores.
Now, though, I've developed a whole different theory: I've come to believe that the compulsion to embrace any new television technology is genetic.
